page_title: Presidency of Shimon Peres
section_title: Knighthood
hierarchical_section_title: Presidency of Shimon Peres / Knighthood
caption_attribution_description: DAVOS-KLOSTERS/SWITZERLAND, 29JAN09 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey leaves the session, while David Ignatius (FLTR), Associate Editor and Columnist, The Washington Post, USA, Shimon Peres, President of Israel, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York, Amre Moussa, Secretary-General, League of Arab States, Cairo, look on, during the session 'Gaza: The Case for Middle East Peace' at the Annual Meeting 2009 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2009.
context_page_description: The Presidency of Shimon Peres, the ninth President of Israel, began after the 2007 Israeli presidential election on 13 June 2007 in which Peres defeated Reuven Rivlin and Colette Avital. Peres was sworn in as President on 15 July 2007.
  At the age of 90, Peres was the world's oldest head of state.
context_section_description: In November 2008, Peres received an honorary knighthood of the Order of St. Michael and St. George from Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in London. After the ceremony, Peres stated that he "was very moved to be an emissary to receive this honor on behalf of the State of Israel."
caption: Erdoğan walks out of the session at the World Economic Forum, after clashing with Peres over the Gaza war.[9]
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